Are "Honeycrisp" apples a fairly new variety? Organic Honeycrisps are normal sized but why are regular (non-organic) Honeycrisps literally the size of grapefruits?

Non-organic grown “Honeycrisp” apples do not turn brown (oxidize) after the apple has been cut and exposed to the air. I have a sliced apple in my refrigerator that is over a month old and it is still white.

My old favorite pie apples, Northern Spies, are not available in my area so I am in search of a really solid baking apple. Grannies make a good applesauce but not a great pie.

Honeycrisp apples make for an excellent baking apple. It holds its shape and crispness in an apple pie.

But where did these suddenly come from? I’ve been around quite a while, lived for many years in apple country and never saw these before in my life.